Legal Opinion
Shaw v. Dempsey Sons Barge Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 3, 1931No. 4491PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.
The owners of the Barge “Rita Dempsey” filed a libel in rein against the Tug “Lizzie D. Shaw” to recover damages sustained by the “Dempsey” in a collision between that barge and two other barges while she was in tow of the “Shaw.” From an interlocutory decree sustaining the libel the claimant of the tug appealed.
Though presented as one action with related parte, there really were four distinct phases of this occurrence in each of which a separate act of negligence is charged against the tug. It may be helpful if first we give the voyage in outline.(a) The tug “Shaw”…
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